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Put the ‘pot’ in pot stickers for this year’s 4/20

Writer Anjana Pawa reveals eight AA+PI cannabis brands that are changing the industry with innovative, aesthetic products for your recreation

Lionel Richie has a hand placed amicably on Bao Nguyen's shoulder.

‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ is filmed like a heist

Vietnamese American director Bao Nguyen on his latest documentary: a making of the Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie hit song “We Are the World”

Two women pose in front of the camera in a fashion company office. Blurred movement from women at work can be seen in the background.

Love, Bonito is made with love for the everyday Asian woman

How Rachel Lim built her line of womenswear from blog shop to empowerment brand

A woman is DJing while wearing a focused expression. She is wearing headphones and manipulating discs and knobs in a room illuminated by purple lights.

Hiroko Yamamura brings ’80s Japanese cyberpunk into the DJ scene

The DJ from Chicago tackles the music scene with a unassailable sense of humor and a peerless love of anime

Activist and photojournalist Corky Lee holds a camera, ready to take a photo, against an orange backdrop with black and white photos framed in white.

442: Corky Lee was the undisputed, unofficial photographer laureate for Asian America

The late activist and photojournalist used his work to chronicle the AA+PI community and record our history over the course of 50 years

A man stands in front of two large paintings in a gallery. He has his hand over his mouth, looking up with his head tilted to the right.

Brett Park uses phantasmic phalluses to explore bodily taboos

In the prolific YouTuber’s art, two-dimensional cartoon bodies hide a secret third dimension of meaning

A collage of frames from different isekai anime shows.

Turning to anime as a form of self-care

A fantasy subgenre called isekai is rising in American popularity for its portrayal of gentle healing amid a tidal wave of burnout

A Black woman and Asian man stand with a microphone in their hands with balloons in the background.

‘Without other people understanding, not a lot is going to change’

Serica Initiative executive director Daniel Tam-Claiborne weighs in on how he uses storytelling to affect change

B-girl Sunny Choi, in a green shirt and black pants, holds a breaking pose on one hand against a brick and cement background.

Road to Paris: B-girl Sunny Choi is breaking through

The Korean American on how breaking helped her overcome and work through many issues, including accepting her Asian identity

Author Kyla Zhao rests a hand on the book "Valley Verified" in front of her and a bookshelf filled with books in the background.

Kyla Zhao’s ‘Valley Verified’ tackles Silicon Valley and big life changes

The author’s latest protagonists trades high fashion for high tech, just as Zhao did

Standup comedian Akaash Singh, dressed in black, holds a microphone up to his face, against a dark background.

Comedian Akaash Singh says we’ve all been ‘Gaslit’

Writer Ali Latifi talks to the comic about his latest special, controversial jokes, and being a voice for “the middle”

Four smiling people sit huddled together in a hug.

‘Keep being weird’: Emilee Petersmark finds truth in folk rock

The Crane Wives’ co-lead singer on how songwriting is helping her embrace her identity as a queer, Korean-born adoptee

An Asian woman and two Asian men are dressed in Chinese period clothing, while the woman holds puppet strings attached to the men and one man feeds the other a peach.

Justinian Huang’s ‘The Emperor and the Endless Palace’ is the spicy Chinese history lesson we didn’t know we needed

Writer Arthur Tam talks to the rising star debut author about his time in Shanghai, “flippant medieval fuck boys,” and how he manifested the queer Asian world he wants to live in

Girl stands with drink in hand at Yuzu event.

Yuzu: The zesty new Asian dating app

The group behind Tinder and Match have launched an app for Asians to find love online, but it’s real sweetness lies in its power to build community

An image of the author and filmmaker, Jeff Chiba Stearns, looking up in a photo studio.

Jeff Chiba Stearns is tired of being asked ‘What are you?’

The mixed Asian American storyteller has made several documentaries and children’s books to dismantle that infamous question

Chef Kaleena Bliss, in a white chef's jacket and black apron stands in a kitchen with a gray box in her hand.

Meet one of the contestants of ‘Top Chef’ season 21

Kaleena Bliss is a Chicago chef by way of the Pacific Northwest, and she’s out to win

An Asian man in a white top and dark pants and apron, stands in a kitchen, holding a tray of vegetables and throws an apple in the air.

Peter Som may just be the ultimate multi-hyphenate

Fans see his Chinese American heritage show brightly in his work, from fashion to food

Two Asian men stand together, holding up white sneakers.

The founders of 1587 are out to show AA+PIs are ‘dope as sh*t!’

The sneaker and fashion brand is all about uplifting Asian American voices

Actor Charlie Bushnell as Luke Castellan in a trojan-style helmet and armor in "Percy Jackson and the Olympians."

A peek into the mind actor Charlie Bushnell of Disney+’s new ‘Percy Jackson’

As iconic antihero Luke Castellan, Bushnell is the guy a generation of bookworms love to hate

Kenji Lopez-Alt will delete your comments if you’re a dick

One of the internet’s most famous food writers talks about cultural appropriation, personal goals, and how to handle the inevitable trolls

Guitarist MEMI, in grayscale, plays guitar on a stage with a drum set and drummer behind her.

Meet the South Korean queen of guitar

MEMI, and her band 24Hours, are set to bring their inspired rock stateside for the first time this week

Check out these Asian diasporic women who tickle our funny bone

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